Comprehensive Assessment of Environmental Behavior of Mine Tailings …

The substantial volumes of tailings produced during ore beneficiation present significant challenges for sustainable management due to potential public health hazards, particularly from metal leaching. The risk associated with tailings varies greatly depending on their mineralogical composition and climatic conditions. If tailings are classified as a non-hazardous …

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First Mining Announces Positive Initial Review by Best Practice

Peter Lighthall is an independent geotechnical consultant with over 50 years of experience, specializing in tailings dams and tailings impoundments, mine rock storage, and mine water management ...

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Hydrometallurgical Recovery of Gold from Mining Wastes

Gold is a highly required material for a wide range of personal and industrial applications. The high demand for gold, together with the shortage of natural resources and high pollution potential of wastes generated during mining and ore processing activities led to search for alternative sources of gold. A possible source is represented by mine wastes resulting from …

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Brazilian authorities shut down Jaguar mine after tailings slide

The Turmalina mine was deemed an "unfeasible work environment" by labor auditors. ... Silver Futures $ 33.2 / ozt -0.66%. Micro Silver Futures $ 33.205 / ozt ... Brazilian authorities shut down ...

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TAILINGS FACTSHEET

The El Torito tailings facility at El Soldado, Chile. WHAT IS A TAILINGS STORAGE FACILITY? TSFs play a major role in many mining operations around the world. A TSF is a highly engineered structure which consists of one or more tailings dams, with embankments designed to permanently store the tailings. Every individual dam is unique and

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A Guide to the Audit and Assessment of Tailings Facility Management

The tailings management series is integral to MAC's Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative, and forms the basis for the tailings management performance indicators under TSM. This Guide is, as with the others in the series, the result of collaboration by members of a team of Canadian mining industry practitioners and experts on the MAC ...

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Advancing sustainable and circular mining through solid-liquid …

When dam failure occurs, it usually leads to environmental pollution (Fig. 1 c-d), temporary/permanent mine closure and destruction of residential buildings (Fig. 1 e-f), and death of humans and animals (Wu, 2020, Yin et al., 2011).Literature indicated that 285 tailings dam failures have been recorded since 1910 with 2650 fatalities (Guimarães et al., 2022, Piciullo et …

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There's a Massive, Hidden Lake of Mining Residue Above the …

The '80s weren't kind to the U.S. steel industry, and Reserve declared bankruptcy in 1986. All those union jobs vanished yet again. Under new non-union parent company Cyprus-Amax, the Babbitt mine plus the Silver Bay processing plant/tailings pond reopened in 1989 as Cyprus Northshore Mining.

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The Risks, the Consequences, and the Solutions to …

High-volume, high-risk tailings dams will continue to be built due to the increasing demand for metals and the resulting mine waste. Understanding the risks and establishing and maintaining comprehensive safety systems are …

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Socio-Environmental Risks Linked with Mine Tailings Chemical

Mine tailings from gold mines lead to the accumulation of heavy metals, acid rock drainage, dust emission, and surface runoff, with considerable effects on agricultural spaces, human health, …

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Abandoned gold mine tailings : mineralogy, environmental hazards

Mineralogical characterizations of artisanal gold mine tailings in Miyove gold mine (Baradega and Masogwe) in Rwanda were investigated for potential utilization as a source of valuable gold, using the centrifugal separation technique. ... Considering that cyanide is an environmental hazards due to its high toxicity, thiosulfate is viewed as a ...

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Adriatic Metals gets approval for new tailings facility

It allows Adriatic to begin the disposing of mine waste at the former Veovaca open-pit mine by December 2024. Gold Futures $ 2929 / ozt -1.33% Micro Gold Futures $ 2927.9 / ozt -1.38%

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Silver tailings: Profitable waste?

Mining waste can be a sensitive issue given health and environmental concerns. Tailings, from silver operations or otherwise, and the circumstances of their disposal and storage, are issues...

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Integrated valorization of silver mine tailings through silver recovery

The recycling of silver mine tailings in the manufacture of sintered ceramics is an effective and sustainable way to reduce the consumption of finite natural resources and the negative environmental impacts of these wastes. The substitution of clay by silver mine tailings (SMT) and the increase of the sintering temperature have a marked effect ...

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Safety First: Guidelines for Responsible Mine Tailings …

The safest tailings facility is the one that is not built. To avoid the long-term liability of mine waste sites and their social and environmental impacts, we must reduce the volume of tailings produced, as well as the overall …

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Silver tailings: Profitable waste?

The company announced its intentions for a silver-gold tailings project in Sonora, Mexico where it has access to materials accumulated from production at the El Tigre mine between 1903 and 1938.

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A review on complex utilization of mine tailings: Recovery of rare

Mine tailings (MTs) are pulverized rock and mineral fractions that are abandoned after the targeted and gangue fractions have been separated [4]. The extensive utilization of primary mineral resources has led to the depletion of high-grade deposits and a shift toward lower-grade deposits. ... can also pose environmental hazards within tailings ...

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A look at ways of controlling tailings to avoid future liability

But given the cost and liability issues, it is increasingly important for mining companies to render those tailings as benign as possible. Tailings that do not exceed regulatory thresholds for metals, acid-generating compounds and other hazards may be able to be disposed of without the cost and liability of a water-covered impoundment.

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17 Guidelines for Responsible Mine Tailings Management …

• Tailings management must ensure zero harm to people and zero tolerance for human fatalities. • Costs and risks must not be transferred to the environment, communities or governments. • …

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Modelling Hazard for Tailings Dam Failures at Copper …

We introduce a simple and transparent hazard indicator built from environmental proxy variables and screen a global sample of 112 copper mines for natural hazards regarding tailings dams.

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CHAPTER II MINE TAILINGS 4 FACILITIES: OVERVIEW 3 …

Mine tailings management is a long-term process that starts well before any tailings are produced (Figure 2). ... aluminium, iron, manganese and silver. Increased material efficiency and recycling may offset some of this demand, but for many currently important metals the projected demand far exceeds the current

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Mining and Water Pollution

Water pollution from mine waste rock and tailings may need to be managed for decades, if not centuries, after closure. These impacts depend on a variety of factors, such as the sensitivity of local terrain, the composition of minerals being mined, the type of technology employed, the skill, knowledge and environmental commitment of the company ...

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Hazard Study of Sludge from Mining Wastewater Treatment …

The increase in gold mining activities has led to a substantial rise in tailings generation, which carry distinct physicochemical and microbiological properties. This study aimed to evaluate the hazardous characteristics of mining tailings using the CRETIB (corrosivity, reactivity, explosiveness, toxicity, ignitability, biological-infectious) methodology. The research …

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The Mining Legacy

However physical hazards still exist. Please respect these hazards and view the historic features of Neihart from a safe distance. In a tribute to Montana's mining origins, the state seal bears the motto, "oro y plata" - gold and silver. The arrival of the railroads to Montana in the late 19th century made possible the rise of industrial ...

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Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Project

Other important commodities include molybdenum, gold, uranium, and silver. However, legacy issues of past mining activities forms negative public perceptions of mining, and inhibits future minerals production in the state. ... Many state and federal agencies and mining companies have mitigated many of the physical safety hazards by closing some ...

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Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines

The archipelago of the Philippines is well endowed in nonferrous mineral resources such as copper, gold, lead, silver, nickel, and zinc. In recent years, the government of the Philippines, acting under the influence of the dominant and seemingly ubiquitous neoliberal development paradigm, has liberalized its mining laws to encourage the extraction of minerals …

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Modelling Hazard for Tailings Dam Failures at Copper Mines …

RQ3: Where in the world are copper‐related tailings hazards located, both at the mine and at the regional level? RQ4: Where are the hazard hotspots for copper ore entering major supply chains of

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Mine Tailings: The Cornerstone of Safe Mining Operations

Mine Tailings: The Cornerstone of Safe Mining Operations In the mining industry, where precious minerals and resources are extracted from the depths of the earth, a significant byproduct arises - mine tailings. ... However, the sheer volume and potential hazards involved necessitate stringent monitoring and management protocols to ensure the ...

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Gold mining tailing: Environmental availability of metals and …

Gold could be found mostly at its elemental state, free or forming alloys with silver, copper, bismuth, elements of the platinum group, mercury or in the second occurrence substituting on the crystalline reticule of sulfides, mostly in pyrite, arsenopyrite, and chalcopyrite, known as invisible or occluded gold (Adams, 2016).The sulfide gold ore, after mining, in …

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Tailings storage facilities, failures and disaster risk

Mining generates 13 billion tonnes per year of potentially toxic wet slurry waste, called tailings, commonly deposited in tailings storage facilities (TSF).

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